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Did I say that somewhere?
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It is not quick and easy to get low-level VC++ code to compile under G++, especially when using something like DX, so it costs time and money to do ... for no benefit except that a few people won't have to switch compilers?
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people instead of users, but its the sentiment not the grammer that im drawing a line under. The opinion of one person really SHOULD be as important as the opinion of any. If I have a strange and weird bug with something and I phone the relevent people for technical support I expect the same amount of support for my money as anyone else and not less just because my bug is rare and not encountered by the majority of people - I still deserve it fixed. likewise my opinion on where the software goes in the future should matter as much as anyone elses, MY money paid for it - thats where you choose, do you want my money? and thats what it boils down to.
do you want the money of people who will only use devcpp, even in windows. its not a case of do you want to agree with their compiler choice or do you want to agree with a dislike of visual studio, its a case of
do you want their money? will it be enough to cover the cost of what it would take to get their money? is there a gain for you and if not are you willing to swallow a loss of some size for the sake of making N amount of people happy?
That is important I feel, N users. its not a few users (people) or alot or 10 or 100, its N. Who REALLY knows how many people have browsed to the site whilst looking for an sdk, saw it didnt support devcpp, shrugged and moved on? who knows how many people wont bother signing up to a forum just to say they want devcpp support when its likely they wont get it, any time soon at least? I'm not willing to make the assumption and I dont think you should be either.
Some people DONT want to install the visual studio, free version or not, to work with. some people DONT want an IDE that does .net code by default when they wont ever use it. some people DONT want
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access to loads of stuff inside windows which otherwise would be hidden (or hard to get at)
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because they are happy with what they already have. some people just want to work with what THEY choose, not what was dicitated to them because some other bloke on a forum liked the alternitive.
You should never presume to tell people what they should and shouldnt like or "what should be" - you can say "sorry we dont support that :/" but saying "you
should use this instead" is a bit of a cheek imho. I know I can use notepad with visual studio - i *like* one major part of 2005 which is the custom build rules, lovely little things. but if i was someone who really wanted to write my code in notepad and then compile from command line I sure as hell wouldnt choose a huge visual c++ suite to go along with my 68k notepad.exe ! heh
I think I should point out at this point that I do NOT use devcpp and never intend to. I would rather use vc6 and, after that, indeed 2005. vc2k5 would be at the top of the list if it had proper resource editing from the resource tree view in the express edition. what im really arguing about here is that I belive I had the right the choose vc2005 on my own merit, not be forced into it. I hate to think that if lee was a devcpp user from the start that I would never of got vc2k5 support! But as I said before, if I WAS a devcpp user right now I *WOULDNT BUY THE SDK* so there should be no problem. only a fool would buy the sdk and then demand support, as i said previously. If the support was there and then removed, sure - but you dont buy something that doesnt do the task you want and then demand that someone makes it do it. But your going to have to face it, devcpp isnt an unpopular compiler by any standard, it has quite a large following. If it can be supported then thats a damn fine idea. Its not quite as bad as trying to convert code to/from the old watcom standard! now that was hell.
basically a really long rant just to say that people shouldnt presume they can tell people what they should do. Lee is in a position where he can tell people what they CAN do, and him alone. NONE of us are in a position to start handing out "shoulds" because its all based on our personal tastes and when you start forcing your taste over someone elses then you've overstepped the mark. Its all a bit pompus to my ears.
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